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Friday, February 16, 2018

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This two-day Exploring family & local history seminar is part of South Australia's History Festival 2018, a month-long program of over 600 events – tours, talks, walks, exhibitions, concerts – about all kinds of history.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Grossmann House will hold its annual open day this Sunday (10am to 3pm), taking on a manly theme.

For the first time in several years the textile display has been changed. A much admired, magnificent burgundy court dress, has been painstakingly packed away and in its place is a gentleman’s theme.

Friends of Grossmann House member Holly McNamee said the change of costume is a huge task. “We’re dealing with very old, used clothing,” she said. The clothes taken down are packed away carefully in special storage boxes.

During her stay in England in 1913, Bessie Rischbieth found herself fascinated by the charisma of suffragettes and their militant actions. She was so inspired that she spent much of her life collecting memorabilia of the movement, building a collection of photographs, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, suffrage periodicals, postcards and correspondence. These items are all testimony to the suffragettes’ strength and creativity in the long and arduous path to equal voting rights for women.

Highlights from this inspiring collection are the subject of a new Collection-in-Focus exhibition at the Library. Deeds Not Wordsopens on Tuesday 6 February.